tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63242691783145204142024-03-14T04:46:52.811+00:00wulfwebColin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-79016912984709814582013-06-07T07:11:00.002+01:002013-06-07T07:11:28.575+01:00Doctor who?I have had the police box sitting around for some time; finally got it painted. The basing is just to try to tie it in to a Victorian date.<br />
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Next up will be the North Star 'Servants of Ra' - flunkeys in robes led by the reincarnation of a Pharaoh.Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-28462198573445007552013-05-29T10:31:00.003+01:002013-05-29T10:31:58.783+01:00Lord and LadyHere are the lord and lady from West Wind's vampire starter set; very paintable figures.<br />
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Now that the whole set are done, I need to sort out the basing; maybe this week...Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-61379371839820453832013-05-13T07:31:00.002+01:002013-05-13T07:31:38.858+01:00Fallen Dark Angels and Imperial Armour on eBayIn the interests of clearing out the 40k stuff I don't use, there are some <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/wulfric_1066/m.html?item=251274554941&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_sop=1">books and figures on eBay.</a> A few pictures below; these are my old Fallen Dark Angels. There is also a selection of Imperial Armour books and FAntasy Flight RPG rulebooks.<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-76955029832845113222013-05-04T13:58:00.002+01:002013-05-04T14:00:40.685+01:00Vampires under the brushI have started on my first faction for Empire of the Dead - the vampires I picked up at Salute last month.<br />
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I'm pleaed with the way they have come out - there's a strong colour theme running through them. I still have the lord and his lady to do. Minimal changes made - the only thing I did was to add a mask to the one figure without one, just to tie them together a little more.<br />
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Once the character vampires are painted, I'll do the basing - this faction will have dirt and grass, because the gravestones will look a bit odd if I set them on cobbles.Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-437695248566951152013-04-27T09:51:00.003+01:002013-04-27T09:51:57.613+01:00Lamp-posts paintedJust a quick update - a quick bit of painting this morning has done the job. Empire of the Dead figure for scale...<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-70582418660214208882013-04-24T07:13:00.000+01:002013-04-27T09:50:24.997+01:00No Salute posts hereNo Salute posts here - just lamp posts; mostly because I'm all Salute-ed out. I also do <a href="http://slwarlords.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">the Warlords blog</a>, so you can find things there if you want.<br />
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Anyway; I have made a mould, cast a few test bases and started to assemble the lamp-posts. As suggested before, I will try to pretty up the bases a little - one here has a plastic Renedra barrel on.<br />
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I think I need to change resin; this one is very hard. It's also a 10:1 ratio mix, which makes producing small volumes of stuff a bit of a lottery; 1:1 ratio is so much more forgiving.Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-82273908179402419112013-04-13T11:50:00.001+01:002013-04-13T11:50:47.728+01:00Victorian Lamp-postsI picked up a <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150882472291?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649" target="_blank">bag of model railway lamp-posts</a> on Ebay from a buyer called 'we_honest'. It turned out, he was. Anyway, I got a box of fifty posts for £13 including postage, which I thought was pretty good, and they turned up last week.<br />
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How to base them? Well, I have a few plastic 30mm bases which I have tried to texture myself. I'm not 100% happy with them, and I think I'm going to actually buy the bases for my Empire of the Dead figures as they arrive, but they're good enough for scenery.<br />
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I don't have any VSF painted yet, but this pirate gives you an idea of the height - they are 60mm, though you can get 70mm if you feel it's a bit short - personally I'm quite happy with them.Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-45102632461029867562013-04-12T15:05:00.004+01:002013-04-12T15:05:39.654+01:0040k burnoutI’ve played 40k for years, but I have to say, I’m feeling a bit flat on it at the moment. Games are still fun, but the game/support/development structure has got to me. <br />
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I used to buy every codex and every WD as they came out. Now – well, I haven’t got the Daemons, Chaos Marines or Tau codexes. I didn’t renew my WD sub at the end of last year, and I didn’t bother to pick up issue 400 at the weekend. <br />
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I still like (most of) the figures, I’m happy with the rules, I like the availability of opponents; I just can’t be bothered to stay on the conveyer belt. <br />
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However, I still have loads of boxes of stuff that needs building and painting; I reckon there's a 2000 point Space Marine army on sprues in the loft; there's certainly another 1000 points of Space Wolves and about the same of Imperial Guard to paint. And that's without thinking about 1500 points of bikes and the best part of a Battle Company of Dark Angel infantry that's sitting up there. Oh, and a Forgeworld stockpile of a Contemptor, some jetbikes, an assault squad... <br />
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What to do, what to do...Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-6996399241171364822013-03-23T17:42:00.004+00:002013-03-23T17:42:51.690+00:00Empire of the Dead KickstarterI'm kinda taken by the <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832150598/empire-of-the-dead-requiem-0" target="_blank">Empire of the Dead kickstarter</a>; I love the whole VSF vibe, and if you're in quick, there is a really good deal going on. I sold on a load of 10mm French WW2 stuff, and I guess I'm recycling some of the cash into new shinys.<br />
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Anyway, while I'm waiting for the kickstarter to deliver, I thought I'd go through what I have sitting in the cupboards and play with it. This is an <a href="http://www.ironcladminiatures.co.uk/shop/article_steam06a/Steam-6a.html?sessid=ITaRMrn5MrbQxT1chpxo8esQGcAzLQJPovxphEqzBCzgp9ePrqHkl1Q7sQz2rOUa&shop_param=cid%3D10%26aid%3Dsteam06a%26" target="_blank">armoured car from Ironclad Miniatures</a>, re-purposed as a police wagon. I'm going to replace the turret with a plain hatch, but I need the figures before I can do that, so it'll have to wait. Oh, and a drop of gloss varnish into the portholes...<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-30272199132699690532012-12-07T11:25:00.001+00:002012-12-07T11:25:26.253+00:00Deep Strike Land Raider - part 2Earlier this week I took a tenon saw to an eBay Land Raider... here are the results. I think it's an unusual piece of terrain, and I'll enjoy popping it on the table down at the club...<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-15515394735670181412012-12-05T11:08:00.002+00:002012-12-05T11:08:37.816+00:00Deep Strike Land RaiderI managed to pick up a couple of Land Raiders very cheaply on Ebay. One will be finding itself refurbished properly and added into my Imperial Guard army as an allied unit (I have started writing the fluff for that one), the other one is being turned into terrain.<br />
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Stage 1 - close assault on a Land Raider with a tenon saw. As you will see, it's basically a hulk; most of the weapons and hatches are missing and I'll replace some from the bits box.<br />
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Stage 2 - the bases are cut from 6mm MDF, the Land Raider parts are stuck down with plenty of hot glue. The larger part will be painted as a Blood Angel vehicle, so I'll do the basing in standard grass colours. The smaller part will go into my Mars terrain so I will probably paint it up in Ultramarine colours to clash with the red basing.<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-81191026185253433822012-11-30T12:06:00.001+00:002012-12-05T11:12:59.754+00:00Thunderfire CannonsI'm stuck at home for a while. I'm not concentrating well enough to paint, but I can do a bit of cutting and sticking. Anyway, here are a couple of Thunderfire cannon from scratch. The weapons and tracks are from a Robogear walker, everything else comes from the bits box.<br />
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I will still be adding some more details to the outside of the carriages, but basically that'll do me. Total cost - a few pence for the plastic card, £2 for the Robogear kits from a charity shop, details from the bits box of leftovers. A darn sight cheaper than £36 each from GW...Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-16768180156956475832012-10-26T06:49:00.001+01:002012-11-30T12:07:35.269+00:00Dark Vengeance bike army<br />
I am hoping to build a 1500 point all-bike army for 40k this year, using the cheap bikes that have flooded out from the new Dark Vengeance starter set.<br />
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<li>Captain on bike (artificer armour, relic blade, storm shield)</li>
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<li>Bike squad (sergeant with power sword, three bikes with two plasma, assault bike with heavy bolter)</li>
<li>Bike squad (sergeant with power sword, three bikes with two meltas, assault bike with multimelta)</li>
<li>Bike squad (sergeant with power axe, three bikes with two plasma, assault bike with heavy bolter)</li>
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Attack bikes are going to be built onto DV bikes; I have a couple of spare sidecars, and it doesn't look terribly hard to scratchbuild a half-dozen more from plastic card and the bits box.<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-16720003962561971902012-09-29T08:23:00.001+01:002012-10-01T07:45:19.318+01:00Dark Angel DeathwingI have built up the terminators from the second starter set now; just a few cut-and-shut changes this time. One of the stormbolter/fist guys was given a heavy flamer from the spares box; the other had both arms replaced with lightning claws. One of those stormbolters was transplanted onto the assault cannon body - see the pictures below.<br />
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Finally, I raided the bits box and put together two more terminators using the left-over arms; one of the bodies is a 'real' terminator, the other one was from Black Reach. I will have to add a bit of iconography with green stuff to blend them in, but the ornate arms help to get it started. I have given the cannon guy a greensuff hood already; more to come.<br />
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Very nice, thank you very much!Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-11085749356281587772012-09-25T18:52:00.001+01:002012-09-25T18:52:19.635+01:00Dark Angel plasma-natorI felt that since I bought the set, I probably ought to put the figures together.<br />
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Maybe a bit bulky, but it'll look nice enough under a coat of paint.Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-38973320494978169612012-09-15T08:33:00.001+01:002012-09-15T09:04:21.338+01:00Valkyries and Vendettas, part 2I haven't done anything about the cockpit yet, though I have scoured Ebay and the bitz sellers for the parts so I can get started. Here are the in-progress pictures of my colour scheme so far...<br />
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The stripes are going to be on the upper surface only; mostly because the weapons were glued in place before I got the model, and it'll be a real pain to paint round them. The next two will be striped upstairs and down.<br />
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Hellboy and Captain America were there on the US side, though I don't seem to have any pictures of them.<br />
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Alan has also put some pictures and notes from this game <a href="http://novobyzantium.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/somewhere-in-europe-1946-weird-world.html" target="_blank">on his blog</a>...Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-12857709867241327362012-09-07T11:01:00.004+01:002012-09-07T11:01:59.262+01:00Valkyries and Vendettas, part 1I have started on the Valkyrie I picked up at a bring and buy for a tenner. It'll do as a test-bed for the paint scheme; I can make my mistakes here, and if it's that bad, I can turn it into scenery. It was completely undercoated in black, across the canopy as well, so I bought a spare from a bits seller online to replace it. Here's the basic model after a coat of silver spray...<br />
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I thought that I would pop the cockpit off now. Okay, I see why he painted across the canopy - none of the cockpit pieces were fitted! Never mind, I can scratchbuild something into there and make the replacement canopy tinted to hide the difference!<br />
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Next thing is to get some base colours on, just to block out where I want things. Red tail, red intakes, drab anti-glare round the cockpit. I am still debating invasion stripes on the wings...<br />
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It does look a little 'Grey Knight', but I think that the nose art will break that a bit...<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-76042029968129740582012-08-24T06:43:00.000+01:002012-08-24T06:45:02.566+01:00Tank huntingI've been quiet on the blogging front over the last week or two - family holiday in the Wye Valley, so I was a bit busy in the canoe and on the bike - but I have managed to get some colour onto this Forgeworld tank hunter I picked up on Ebay a while back.<br />
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A very simple colour scheme; heavy green drybrush, tracks in drab drybrushed gunmetal, pick out the details. I will be using it in the Imperial Guard army I'm <b>finally </b>getting on with as either an enclosed Basilisk or (since the long barrel is magnetised) as an enclosed Colossus. There are 'proper' rules for it in the Imperial Armour books, but it's good to have a codex alternative...</div>
<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-23648256779803503362012-08-04T11:04:00.000+01:002012-08-04T11:04:10.419+01:00Rough riders - part 1Just a quick update of what's on the board at the moment; legs for a squad of rough riders. Made from the hip and boot bits of a pair of Cadian legs, with a bit of copper wire to get the leg length. Once they are completed, I will make myself a mould and cast enough for a squad.<br />
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They fit neatly onto a lizardman cold one, but I think they will fit horses as well if I want a second squad. They are a bit rough, but they'll do the job.<br />
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The other thing that's floating about at the moment is an idea of using WW2 figures to play Gruntz - some sort of alternative/weird world war stuff... twin lascannon Sherman, anyone :)<br />
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<br />Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-40221990397067682132012-07-27T06:49:00.003+01:002012-07-29T12:55:35.144+01:00They know what you're thinkingThe next unit on the modelling table is a psyker battle squad. I have decided they need to stand out from the rank and file of the army, so they are going to have a colour scheme all their own. As a unit that's perceived as dangerous to the troops souls, they are required by regimental edict to wear black and yellow; unit and transport will certainly stand out that way!<br />
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I'm building them from Brettonian bodies; what I am finding is that I have a lack of laspistols. I'm looking around for a manufacturer who does replacement arms, but so far I only have four built; more to follow.<br />
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The left hand pair have arms from the Cadian infantry, the third has a Space Wolf chainsword and a scroll from the Flagellent set, the last figure has a flagellent's mace and a holstered pistol. The heads are from the flagellents as well, to give a more unkempt appearance.Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324269178314520414.post-75656880168638690642012-07-21T08:21:00.003+01:002012-07-21T08:21:55.577+01:00Painting update - IG heaviesA heavy painting session last night (thanks to my wife for putting up with it!) has given me a new turret for the Ragnarok and four autocannon teams for Echo company, yellow platoon.<br />
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One Blight Wheel war-bot in each squad as the heavy weapon team - mounted on 60mm bases, though they only really need 40mm bases for the size of the robot.<br />
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Another turret - KV2, styrene barrel made from three diameters of tube.<br />
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Two Ragnaroks and the robots...Colin Hagreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036629525669263501noreply@blogger.com3